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Astrophysics
Scientific news within the field of astrophysics, from news of solar eclipses to star behavior.
Ravenous black holes has much more compact dust than thought
The dust surrounding active, ravenous black holes is much more compact than previously thought.
Don’t you wish your planet was hot like Jupiter?
Astronomers have found the planet KELT-9b, a Jupiter-like world which is the hottest gas planet that has ever been…
Vermin galaxy ‘trapped’ by Hubble
A distant galaxy can be seen in part of a recent image from the NASA Hubble Space Telescope, as it begins to align…
As-yet undiscovered planet cause of stellar eclipses
Hugh Osborn has identified that the light from this rare young star is regularly blocked by a large object – and…
Project Apophis: Close-range mission to a giant asteroid
A giant asteroid will fly by Earth in 2029, and Space Systems Engineering students are designing a close-range…
Another success for Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
Astronomers' results constitute another successful test for Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
Enceladus, Saturn’s moon, may have tipped over
Enceladus' spin axis - the line through the north and south poles - has reoriented, possibly due to a collision…
Juno mission reveals Jupiter as a turbulent world
Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has been portrayed as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, by…
Details of TRAPPIST-1’s Least Understood Planet Confirmed
Regular pattern in the orbits of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system that confirmed suspected details about the…
SpaceX to launch Dragon spacecraft for resupply mission
From NASA’s Kennedy Space Center’s historic pad 39A, SpaceX is scheduled to launch its Dragon spacecraft for its…